How to Install Webmin on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS final just released on 17th April 2014. Ubuntu 14.04 includes 3.13.0-24.46 Ubuntu Linux kernel. In this article i will show how you can install Webmin on Ubuntu 14.04. Webmin is a free program that allow system administrators to perform system administration and configuration via web-based interface. It require less command line and recommended for those who are not familiar with Debian’s operating system as the Ubuntu builds on the foundations of Debian’s architecture and infrastructure.

Note : By default Ubuntu don’t allow logins by the root user. However, the user created at system installation time can use sudo to switch to root. Webmin will allow any user who has this sudo capability to login with full root privileges. If you plan to enable root Login on Ubuntu 14.04, kindly follow this steps on How to Enable Root Login on Ubuntu 14.04.

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DavidinVA

I have 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 Server with Gnome 3 installed on top of that to give me a GUI.

I followed the above instructions and got the following in Terminal:

[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install webmin
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
webmin : Depends: libauthen-pam-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: apt-show-versions but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

So I needed the libauthen-pam-perl package first. So I installed that in Synaptic Package Manager. After that, everything with Webmin seems to work well. I got the following in Terminal:

Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://ServerBoxName:10000/
as root with your root password, or as any user who can use sudo
to run commands as root